Pro Animal Testing Cons

I am not entirely sure to whom this may concern, nor am I sure of your methods, but I am writing this to help stop the continuation of a practice deemed cruel and useless: animal testing. As you already know, animal testing is using animals to find the effects of controlled variables (such as a medication or beauty product). Though it may sound harmless in the definition, it is far from that. Animal testing has become a way for people who are too afraid to test products on themselves and other humans to test these products on innocent animals who will never even use these products once they are deemed safe. The testing for these products are often cruel, and the results are rarely accurate due to different genotypes and phenotypes that other
Here are a few benefits pointed out by ProCon.org that show how animal testing could be considered a good thing: “Animal testing has contributed to many life-saving cures and treatments,”, “There is no adequate alternative to testing on a living, whole-body system,”, and “Animals must be used in cases when ethical considerations prevent the use of human subjects.” Many people may say that it would be inconceivably inhumane to use humans in these atrocious experiments, so why is it so okay to use animals? The majority of these products will never even be used for them, so why must they go through the torturous
Andrew Knight describes a list of ways around animal testing, ways that are better and more correct. A few ways he describes are: “Pharmacokinetic (PK) models predict in-vivo concentrations of test substances and metabolites, and the organ systems affected (Combes et al, 2007),”, “[Assays reliant on bacterial, yeast, protozoan, mammalian or human cell cultures] may be static or perfused, and used individually or combined within test batteries to increase the spectrum of toxins detected. Human hepatocyte cultures and metabolic activation systems offer important assessments of metabolite activity and toxicity,”, and “[Toxicogenomics] most useful application lies in genetic expression profiling. Attempts are made to identify genes consistently up- or downregulated when test cells are exposed to particular classes of toxin, whether in vitro or in vivo.” This is just a tiny peek at all of the new methods being developed to replace the heinous tests animals are used for. Genomics have become a big help to looking for ways to replace animal testing because they allow us to see how products affect the human genome, not another species’. Seeing these possibilities that lead to considerably more precise results, how could someone think it to be better to harm innocent lives that would just be going to waste to